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Envy, Poison, & Death - Women on Trial in Classical Athens (Paperback)
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship
Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected
open access locations. At the heart of this volume are three trials
held in Athens in the fourth century BCE. The defendants were all
women and in each case the charges involved a combination of ritual
activities. Two were condemned to death. Because of the brevity of
the ancient sources, and their lack of agreement, the precise
charges are unclear, and the reasons for taking these women to
court remain mysterious. Envy, Poison, and Death takes the
complexity and confusion of the evidence not as a a riddle to be
solved, but as revealing multiple social dynamics. It explores the
changing factors-material, ideological, and psychological-that may
have provoked these events. It focuses in particular on the dual
role of envy (phthonos) and gossip as processes by which
communities identified people and activities that were dangerous,
and examines how and why those local, even individual, dynamics may
have come to shape official civic decisions during a time of
perceived hardship. At first sight so puzzling, these trials reveal
a vivid picture of the socio-political environment of Athens during
the early-mid fourth century BCE, including responses to changes in
women's status and behaviour, and attitudes to ritual activities
within the city. The volume reveals some of the characters, events,
and even emotions that would help to shape an emergent concept of
magic: it suggests that the boundary of acceptable behaviour was
shifting, not only within the legal arena but also through the
active involvement of society beyond the courts.
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